Improvement in bee-hives



@with tstts @anni @fitte JOHN MATHIUVS, 'OF PEMBERTON, OUI.

Letters Patent No. 69,569, dated October 8,4186?.

'AIMPROVEMNT IN BBE-HIVES.

lO ALL WHOM l` MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN MATHiUS, of Pemberton, in the county of Shelby, and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful4 Improvements in Bee-Hives and I do hereby (leclerc the following to be afull, clear, aud exact description-thereof, reference being had to thennnexed drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical section from front to reni' of my bee-hive; and

Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line X X of fig. l.

n the drawings A is the hive, furnished with a door, swinging^ upon 4hinges at one edge, and ttcd to close the hive tigbtwhen desired. The hive is divided into two portions by the horizontal partition B. The upper portion has within it a ease or` drawer, e, resting on the partition E, and which may veasily be withdrawn from the hive when necessary. The case or'druwer C is provided with openings, a, in its iowor corners, which are immediately overrand forni eontinuations of similar openings ct in the partition B. These are shown in dotted lines in g. and more distinctly iii-iig. These are to ullow the bees to pass from the lower portion of the 4hive to the case 0,-Which has its front closed by' a sliding pane of glass, D, se that its interior can be seen when the door A' is open. An opening, Z, in the top ci' the case C, is exactly under a. simiiar opening, b, in the top of the hive. The object of these openings is to allow the bees to pass into another hive when it becomes expedient to have them do so, which hive is to be pleceden the one described. A tube, c, of tin or other sheet metal, extends down through the opening Z1 in the lopy of the hive inte the opening bin the top of the case 4C, and prevents the bees from getting inte the space between the ceso C and the'top of the hive, where they might be killed.. When the openingsb are not wanted for the passage of the bees from one hive to another the tube e is to be closed by a stopper. penings Z and e in the back of the case and hive are covered with coarse wire-gauze screens, and serv as ventilators. Another ventilatinr opening,f, in the lower portion of the 'nivo through the back, is also covered with a screen of wire ganze, and may be closed, when necessary, by the wicket E on the outside of the hive, (see iig. l.) The front of the lower portion of the hive may also be closed by e pane of glass, F, so that when the door A is opened the interior may beseen without allowing the bees to come out, and without disturbing them. To the bottoni of the bee-hive is attached a boxing, consisting of the sido pieces G G, and inclined planes VH H. The cleats y g are rmly secured-tc the side pieces Gr., and extend up above the bottom of the. hive, a short distance along the sides ofthe hive, to which they 'are attached by screws It L, seen in dotted iinesin figg, so that the boxing and its inclined planes may be separated from the hive if necessary, and the hive used without them. The inclined planes H H have :in opening between their lower edges for the passage of the bees, and whenever moths, worms, or other enemies of the bees get through` the opening into the space between the inclined planes they will not be able to mount to the hive, or, if they do, will fell back upon the inclined planes and roll out at the bottom. y

I Having thus fully described my invention, what i. claim as new therein?, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, 'is- 1. The hive A A and case'C, with their openings n a', b b', and f, arranged as set forth in combination with the tubec, substixntieily as and for the purpose described.

2f The inclined planes HSI-I, in combination with the hive A. and tubo c, substantially as und. for the purpose set' forth.

In testimony whereof I have signedthis'specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN MATHIUS. Witnesses:

. Messner. Perron,

Geenen W. JOHNSTON, 

